XML and HTML help

[houssam_ballout]

hello all, I am doing an interface for linux distribution to be used as the webinterface, I have information on xml file, the info. will be revealed when the user press on some icon (to know more information about it), on some alert box, so how could i do that?take the xml information from the xml filethanks

[boen_robot]

Nothing really became clear. Linux interface, but a web interface. OK.1. But does that interface run on a stand alone server located at the user (for example, routers do that. They have their interface as HTML pages that are served when accessing the router via HTTP)?2. Or are all clients connecting to a remote site (the same way they would from a browser, but from an application)?3. Or perhaps the files are not running from an HTTP server, but only statically in the browser (where the "URL" will actually be a file path)?4. Or does it not run from a browser at all, but a stand alone application (if this is supposed to appear offline before anything else is installed)?Each of this environment presents different possibilities and constrains.1. Depends on what will be available to this stand alone server. If it doesn't have anything extra available to it, see 3. If it does, see 2.2. You can use many things. Practically everything. JavaScript to insert the data on the page without reloading, a server side scripting language (PHP, ASP(.NET), ColdFusion, Perl, etc.) to do the same on server checks (for example, if the data has to be saved). Or (the best option in my opinion, but might not be suitable for you) use variety of XSLT files- one for each format of the page (HTML, XHTML, SVG, etc.) and use the server side scripting language to execute the transformation and return the result to the browser. It's the XSLT file which will deal with the XML(s).3. Unfortunatly, the only thing you may use is JavaScript or XSLT over the XML. The later will requre a different XML file for each page + the extra XML file(s). The first is the only thing that can be "embed" in (X)HTML pages. If JavaScript is what you need, read the XML DOM tutorial.4. Use the language with which you've build the application. If built in C++, use a C++ based XML parser to access the desired XML nodes and use their data. One such example is Apache's Xalan-C.